NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Bill of Rights1
United States Constitution1
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 1 to 15 of 124 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Julie E. Minbiole – American Biology Teacher, 2024
Instructors from K-16 incorporate current events and contemporary media in their courses in a variety of ways and with different educational objectives. Here, I present strategies for selecting and framing current events in high school and undergraduate biology courses and an example assignment, all explicitly tied to science practice skills and…
Descriptors: Current Events, Learner Engagement, Science Instruction, High School Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Xie, Xiuye; Kim, Junyoung – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2020
This article, as a practical guide, introduces pedagogical strategies to PETE faculty on how to teach PETE students to develop quality instructional objectives. Specifically, this article presents three pedagogical strategies: (a) Bloom's taxonomy to differentiate objective categories and their hierarchical levels, (b) Action-Condition-Criterion…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Teacher Education, Educational Objectives, Educational Strategies
Perry R. Rettig; Toni M. Bailey – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024
Parents want to work with their children's teachers to help them succeed in school. "What Brain Research Says about Student Learning" provides parents and teachers the most recent findings in brain research and learning theory in a very approachable way. The reader will see how the child's brain develops, learns, remembers, and creates…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Cooperation, Brain, Cognitive Processes, Learning Theories
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Stevens, Jennifer – Journal of Educators Online, 2018
Online instructors are tasked with creating meaningful learning assignments, but they may struggle with balancing their teaching workloads. This article includes five strategies for creating assignments and activities that promote learning without overwhelming instructional workload, including anticipating student questions when writing…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Assignments, Faculty Workload, Time Management
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Reisman, Abby; Kavanagh, Sarah Schneider; Monte-Sano, Chauncey; Fogo, Brad; McGrew, Sarah C.; Cipparone, Peter; Simmons, Elizabeth – Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
Both the Common Core Standards for Literacy and the College, Career, and Civic Life Framework for Social Studies State Standards underscore the importance of classroom discussion for the development of high-level literacy and subject-matter knowledge. Yet, discussion remains stubbornly absent in social studies classrooms, which tend toward rote…
Descriptors: Discussion (Teaching Technique), Classroom Techniques, Student Participation, History Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Trammell, Beth A.; LaForge, Chera – Journal of Educators Online, 2017
Teaching in the online classroom is becoming commonplace for instructors as universities seek to grow enrollments and tap into unexplored markets. Many instructors, however, are often unprepared for the nuances of distance education and apprehensive about making the transition to online learning. This article aims to discuss common challenges for…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Online Courses, Educational Strategies, Instructional Design
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Tyran, Kristi Lewis – Management Teaching Review, 2017
This article introduces a leadership philosophy exercise where students reflect on their values and prepare a statement of what they intend to do as a leader in their careers. This exercise has the potential to add value to leadership classes or seminars where personal leadership is the focus. By using the leadership philosophy exercise, I argue…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Leadership Training, Leadership, Educational Philosophy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sharma, Ghanashyam – Composition Studies, 2016
In light of increasing international immigration and student mobility, unprecedented redistribution of geopolitical power, and the pervasive effects of the internet on institutions and communities locally and globally, rhetoric and composition has, albeit more in theory than in practice, started responding to the multilateral flow of ideas across…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction, Global Approach
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lowry, Deborah – Teaching Sociology, 2016
What should activist-scholars teach in the social problems classroom? In this conversation, I challenge the assertion that advancing a sociology of social problems is an overly academic enterprise of little use to students and other publics. I introduce the potential of a pedagogical framework for promoting social problems literacy: a set of…
Descriptors: Activism, Scholarship, Social Problems, Citizen Participation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Novak, Benjamin Edward; Lynott, Francis John, III. – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2015
This article identifies homework as an underutilized strategy in physical education. It reviews the benefits associated with the use of homework in the physical education setting, and provides guidelines for the effective implementation of this strategy. The guidelines include practical application examples and define structured active homework…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Educational Benefits, Homework, Educational Strategies
Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), 2015
The Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) incorporates challenging literacy standards into middle grades and high school content areas within a variety of academic disciplines, not just English/language arts courses. The Mathematics Design Collaborative (MDC) provides schools with instructional tools needed to help teachers understand and implement…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Literacy, Mathematics Education, Educational Strategies
Nave, Bill, Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2015
What does student-centered learning look like in real-life classrooms? In this collection, educator Bill Nave and nine award-winning K-12 teachers tell the story of how and why they changed their teaching and redesigned their classrooms in order to "reach every child." They reflect on their successes and struggles to put students in…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Instructional Design, Educational Change, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lee, Eunbae; Pate, Joseph A.; Cozart, Deanna – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2015
Despite the rapid growth of online learning in higher education, the dropout rates for online courses has reached 50 percent. Lack of student engagement rank as a critical reason for frequent online course dropout. This article discusses autonomy support as a strategy to enhance online students' intrinsic motivation and engagement. Drawing from…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Learning Motivation, Learner Engagement
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lauren Esposito – English Journal, 2016
Whether novice or experienced, writers must come to terms with the daunting task of filling up a blank page, or screen, in an effort to produce writing. Student writers are no different. They enter teachers' classes having confronted similar difficulties with discovering what it is they want to say. In seeking to help students, they devote…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Creative Activities, Prewriting, Writing Instruction
Watson, Gavan Peter Longley; Kenny, Natasha – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2014
Critical reflection is a highly valued and widely applied learning approach in higher education. There are many benefits associated with engaging in critical reflection, and it is often integrated into the design of graduate level courses on university teaching as a life-long learning strategy to help ensure that learners build their capacity as…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Critical Thinking, Reflection, Foreign Countries
Previous Page | Next Page ยป
Pages: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9